The Superior Court of Peru has sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison the former vice-president of the Congress of Peru, Wilmer Elera, for aggravated collusion perpetrated in several localities in the north of the country.
The parliamentarian had been accused of being a participant in 2012 in a case of improvement of a sewage system in which the State was defrauded. Specifically, he was the supervisor of the work of improvement and expansion of the drinking water and sewerage system of the municipalities of Pacaipampa, Ayabaca and Piura, in the department of Piura, in northwestern Peru, as reported by ‘La República’.
This was ruled in August by the Specialized Criminal Court on Corruption of Public Officials, a sentence that forced Elera to resign as third vice-president of the Andean Parliament when he had been in office for only a week.
«I am pleased to inform you of my resignation as third vice president of the board of the Congress of the Republic, to which I was validly elected in parliamentary elections on July 26 of this year,» Elera said in a statement at the time.
Meanwhile, the congressman has participated in sessions of the Ethics Committee in the last weeks, but in secrecy and without informing his whereabouts, as reported by RPP radio station.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
